I don't think gaming will ever recapture the pandemic high of Doom Crossing and all the fan-art that came with it, but Ocarina of Time is the only game that's dared to launch against GTA 6—ignoring the Aspyr special Shrek remaster—so it's hard not to lump the two together.
They have entirely different audiences and occupy entirely different platforms, and yet fans are leaning into the faux rivalry; there was even an SNL sketch about it. But what does Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick think about the game?
"It's terrific," he told GamesBeat. "They should be very proud of the title. In the entertainment business, you compete against everything and nothing. Everything because there's so many ways consumers can spend their time, and nothing because if there's nothing good out there, people don't need to consume any of it."
Zelnick says that games, like all entertainment, are not necessities like food. They're luxuries. It's up to companies like Take-Two to make the best games they possibly can to get people through the door.
"It's like food; food could be bad, but you still are going to be hungry," he explained. "But in the case of entertainment, it's...
